An Afghan woman who served as a military officer describes surviving Taliban imprisonment and torture, as well as decades of family trauma including forced marriages of her relatives, after fleeing Afghanistan and awaiting asylum in Pakistan.

Shokria, a 33-year-old former Afghan National Army officer who served in the Ministry of National Defense and was one of 110 women selected for military training in Turkey, describes being imprisoned and tortured by the Taliban after they returned to power in August 2021, suffering shattered kneecaps and a concussed head, while recounting her father being publicly whipped, her 14-year-old sister being forced to marry a man in his fifties, her 17-year-old aunt being forcibly married to a Taliban fighter (never seen again), and her sister later dying after a miscarriage during their family's escape to Pakistan.